Archive for November 25th, 2009

Climategate: CATO’s Pat Michaels and Center for American Progress Dan Weiss on Fox News

Dan Weiss from the Center for American Progress seems to have more than a little trouble with this interview. I wonder why they didn’t ask Joe Romm to be on? Left to right: Michaels and

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Fiddling in the Antipodes

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition finds evidence that temperature records in that country have been adjusted to show warming. It never rains, but it pours eh?

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Free Speech

Ok, after this I’m done blogging today. I’ve got two papers to review and a pile of other work. In the meantime Reuters finally reported the story. Of course it was within the

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The True Meaning of Thanksgiving: Private Enterprise in America

[Editor’s Note: Richard Ebeling, a noted classical liberal scholar, teaches economics at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. This post is reprinted with his permission from Northwood's

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Lucia VonStorch post

Hans Von Storch is one of my favorite climate scientists, simply due to VonStorch and Zorita 04. The paper had problems because they attempted to replicate a Mann paper and completely blew it

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Michael Mann in his own words on the stolen CRU emails

mann_treering.jpg With all the wild accusations flying around over the illegally obtained email correspondence from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, I thought I would

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Making sense of greenhouse gas accounting

Waste management is increasingly gaining the recognition that it deserves as a major contributor to mitigating climate change. But with at least four different methods of accounting for greenhouse

Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Emissions Target

President Obama will offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, White House officials said.

Willis Eschenbach’s FOI Request

Willis Eschenbach’s account of his FOI request has been published on other blogs (e.g. here ) but I’m re-publishing it because Willis actually sent it to me first and the events all

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Re: [Planet 3.0: 1920] Yet More CRU

I posted on it: [link] – Tim Lambert [link]

No, BBC was not sent the stolen emails

The latest story exciting the denialosphere is this one by Carol Driver in the Daily Mail. Driver claims: Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent ‘cover-up’

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Carbon dioxide emissions continue significant climb

The annual rate of increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has more than tripled in this decade, compared to the 1990s, reports an international consortium of scientists, who paint a

Quote of the week #23 – calls for resignation in Climategate

Calls from the left for the resignation of Dr. Phil Jones from CRU continue to mount, and they are coming from surprising places. For the second time this week, George Monbiot called for the

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As with the Truth about Acid Rain, the MSM Wants to Bury Climaquiddick — By: Henry Payne

Detroit — David Skole, a professor of forestry at Michigan State University, visited the Detroit News offices earlier this month to argue that cap-and-trade legislation would be an economic

New Zeland Temperatures Corrected – Just Like the Rest of the World

I almost ran this post but it came in at just the right time that I had to drive to the folks house and it was difficult to get done.  Anthony Watts picked it up though. What people need to

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Redefining Peer Review

In 2005 Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann, of Real Climate and CRU email fame, carefully explained that the process of peer review is a messy, incremental way to advance knowledge in fits and

Real Climate Unmoderated

I’ve decided to reproduce the Real Climate latest post in its entirety in an unmoderated fashion. It would seem valuable to have the ability to address the scientists in an open manner.

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Re: [Planet 3.0: 1920] Yet More CRU

I think he is just saying that he got forwarded the one email that referred to him. No way he could have got all of them since many were wrotten after that date, – Tim Lambert [link]

Questions arise about modification of New Zealand climate data

Which temperature graph for New Zealand is correct?  The top graph depicts the official temperatures as reported by the nation’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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Questions arise about modification of New Zealand climate data

Which temperature graph for New Zealand is correct?  The top graph depicts the official temperatures as reported by the nation’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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Questions arise about modification of New Zealand climate data

Which temperature graph for New Zealand is correct?  The top graph depicts the official temperatures as reported by the nation’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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Questions arise about modification of New Zealand climate data

Which temperature graph for New Zealand is correct?  The top graph depicts the official temperatures as reported by the nation’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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English winemaker toasts climate change

Output of English wine this year is predicted to be one of the largest ever – exceeding 3m bottles – as farmers in northerly latitudes see benefits from rising temperatures

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Hacked emails: They’re trouble, serious trouble, but not BIG trouble

Monbiot.jpg “Climate scientists should not let themselves be goaded by the irresponsibility of the deniers into overstating the certainties of complex science or, worse, censoring

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Yet More CRU

[link] If Hudson is being accurate then there was at least a month between the time the hackers had access to CRu stuff and when they realeased (last date in emails according to RC is Nov 12,

Letters: Climate scientists’ hacked emails damage global warming case

I am sure George Monbiot is right that global warming isn’t a scam (Comment, 24 November). However, I wonder if he is mistaken in his view of the limited nature of the recent disclosures. He

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Obama in Copenhagen: A fleeting presence

From his first day in office, environmentalists have pressed Barack Obama to attend next month’s climate conference in Copenhagen. But when it emerged yesterday that he was heeding the call

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Uh, oh – raw data in New Zealand tells a different story than the “official” one.

UPDATE: see the end of the article for a response. Reposted from TBR.cc Investigate magazine’s breaking news forum: New Zealand’s NIWA accused of CRU-style temperature faking The New

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The little island and its big, green victory

Aferocious force-nine gale whipped across the low grass and pine-dotted hummocks. The sky was all deep grey scudding cloud, the rain horizontal and hard. But in a sodden field, three so-called

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‘Organic farming may counter climate change,’ report says

Organic farming can play an important role in countering climate change, a new report suggests today.

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